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Clifford Chance has worked on what could be the first Italian whole business securitization, helping Aeroporti di Roma, the group that operates Rome's Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, reduce its debt.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to rule on whether non-US financial institutions should be exempt from a ban on making loans to directors.

DLA hires 19 from Cameron in Hong Kong

Malaysia's market regulator is cutting approval times for capital markets deals in an effort to modernize its securities regime.

Reform initiatives at Korea's financial regulator have been thrust into the spotlight after a forced change in leadership mid-way through March.

Employees of companies in the midst of corporate collapse are often the people most affected; white knight investors rarely want to pay outstanding wages.

Canadian regulators are planning to clarify and toughen rules on insider reporting.

Howard Davies, the chairman of the UK's financial services regulator, has raised doubts about how well Europe's widespread financial services reforms are progressing.

The number of securitization deals grew by 14% in 2002. Banks continued to tap the markets for regulatory capital through innovative tier I deals. And even the 2.5% fall in global debt issuance was bearable compared with the near disappearance of primary market equity deals. Last year was still not good for debt capital markets lawyers, but it could have been so much worse. Here IFLR publishes, for the first time, tables of the leading legal advisers on tier I debt and convertible bonds as well as its annual tables of advisers on securitization and high-yield deals. Simon Crompton and Catherine McShane report

Frederick Feldkamp of Foley & Lardner says new accounting rules on the consolidation of variable interest entities show the US has learned from the Enron disaster. These rules could even enhance the prospects of the US securitization market